Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1887-11-01

Eve men and will begin work in earnest soon.
This will be their first season at the business
The Wing saws Mr. Waller Palmer has
crew Of forty men and twenty -four horses at
work numbering on the West Branch, and
Mr.. Charles Palmer has about the same num-
Der ut work ON the east branch of the Mat
tawamkeag.
As John Falcon of Midway was examining
a woke of oxen owned by neighbor, they be-
came frightened by dog and started TO run
and catching Mr.. Falcons clothes drew nm
under their feet, injuring him internally tie
lies in a critical condition AT the time OF writ
ing, says the Up-Riyer News
Mr.. Dovoe and wife of kingman. were
away from home and left FIVE little children
TO amuse themselves as best they could, when
| the oldest boy and girl got some powder put
| il in pan. set il in the middle of the room
and then set match to the powder for little
sport, reports the Up-Riyer News. Mrs
| Thompson. living next door, heard the ex-
plosion and the screams of the children. and
came TO the rescue. When she opened the
door the room was filled with smoke. The
girls hair was in flames and she was trying 10
| save baby sister whose hair was also on nre,
not knowing her own was a torch Mrs
| Thompson who is blessed with clear head
and presence of mind, succeeded in extinguish-
| ing the flames and saving the childrens lives
| The boys arm is burned TO the elbow, and the
poor little girls face is burned almost all over
| The children are doing as well as can be
expected.
| PIscATAQUls.
| When the Bangor & Piseataquis train
reached Lagrange, the other evening, party
| of drunken men were on board who stopped
at Lagrange and engaged in free fight. An
old gentleman who had store near the
| station, ran up stairs into his living rooms and
closed the doors. But the contest waxed
hotter, so he fastened a rope about the waist
of his wife, lowered her out of the back
window of the chamber and then succeeded
| in getting down 10 the ground himself and
escaping TO a more quiet neighborhood, re.
ports the Commercial.
| WALDO.
/ LIBERTY Our correspondent writes, Oct.
81: Prof. Easily has finished his course of
Readings here, and opened Il course at Sears
mont village. Many of our village people
enjoyed the Professors readings, and we re-
greet that SO many of our citizens neglected
the opportunity to appreciate such talent as
seldom comes to a village of this size. H. j.
Hunt of Bangor, is in the village for few
DAYS. Mr. Hunt has been engaged in busi-
ness at the above city and not being in very
good health will pass the winter at Fitch
burg, Mass.---The high school will close its
present term in two weeks. Under the di-
rection of Mr.. Luce it is regarded as the
most profitable term the school has expe-
rienced for many years. This village fortu-
nately escaped big blaze one day last week.
| The chimney in the Cargill building caught
fire, and igniting the roof, large hole was
quickly burned through. 1t being in the day
time ard the water brigade being close AT
| hand, the fire was soon subdued, otherwise it
would have communicated with the row of
buildings adjoining and no human power
could have prevented their destruction, as the
wind was in favorable quarter. The con
struction of a reservoir at some central point,
to be supplied from springs located on the
side of Haystack mountain which has been
vigorously discussed in years past, needs
further agitation and intelligent action. The
course that many towns have pursued with
reference to readiness for fires that are liable
to break out at any moment, savors of the
penny-wise and pound-foolish policy and
should not be tolerated in any intelligent
community. Every dollar wisely invested in
these Improvements adds wealth to the town
and safety to the people.
WASHINGTON.
Eastport, scorched PASSPORT, still has to pay
insurance rates of per cent per annum on
brick buildings and per cent on wooden
buildings. Whew.
YORK
The Boston & Maine railroad has given a
contract at the Woodman quarry, Biddeford,
for a thousand yards of bridge stone for the
new railroad bridge about to be erected al
Salmon Falls. Two hundred yards of the
stone for this contract are ready and will be
shipped this month.